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Vol. 78/No. 29      August 11, 2014

 
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August 11, 1989

MONTREAL — In a massive outpouring of anger and determination thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Canada on July 27 in support of women’s right to decide whether to have an abortion.

The cross-Canada mobilization took place the day after the province of Quebec’s Court of Appeal decided to uphold a lower court injunction preventing 21-year-old Chantal Daigle from having an abortion.

Chanting “Neither pope, judge, doctor, or spouse, it’s a woman’s decision” and “Maternity a choice, abortion a right,” more than 10,000 people took to the streets of Montreal.

Demonstrations of several hundred took place in many other cities across Canada, including Calgary, Saskatoon, Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Quebec City, Halifax, and St. John’s.

August 10, 1964

NEW YORK — “All U.S. warships, planes and troops should be immediately withdrawn from Southeast Asia,” today declared Clifton DeBerry, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, as the news came of bombing attacks by U.S. planes on coastal installations in North Vietnam.

DeBerry termed the attacks ordered by President Johnson “open, unabashed acts of aggression carried out in contemptuous disregard of international law and of all humane and civilized sentiments.”

The Negro candidate for President said that the attack on North Vietnam had been planned in the White House and Pentagon for a long time. “The incidents between the U.S. destroyer and the PT boats were the pretext not the cause of the U.S. air attack,” he asserted.

August 8, 1939

CHICAGO — A mass demonstration of over 10,000 Negro workers, called to protest an injunction preventing construction of a Federal Housing unit on the South Side was turned into a victory celebration, July 30. Speakers at the demonstration were able to announce that the militant stand of the workers in the Negro neighborhood had forced the lifting of the injunction.

Prominent real estate interests are violently opposed to the housing project which they fear will force them to lower rents and make repairs on their holdings.

Negro housing on Chicago’s South Side is the nation’s worst. White chauvinism forces the Negroes to live in a real ghetto. Unable to move, they are exploited unmercifully by big real estate companies which exact exorbitant rents for the vilest kind of housing facilities.

 
 
 
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